The admittedly fictional character Sheldon Cooper is almost a classic example of it and Trump is nothing like him. [6] The escapees were able to quickly exit Taliban controlled airspace and charted a course to the United Arab Emirates. [2] With one engine running, the remaining three could easily be started. Many of the Taliban accepted that the prison was now escape-proof. • In 2001 the men released a book about their ordeal called, Escape from Kandahar. Cockburn is British! Mohammad says that he and some friends hailed a taxi at about 4 am and were waved through two police posts. These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment.
At least 71 of the escaped prisoners were reportedly recaptured.[1][2]. Or just to give the commentariat an easy target. More watcher towers were built and surveillance cameras installed; there were high new walls extended underground to prevent tunnels, and the prison was surrounded by a deep trench. Interestingly, he says that all the internal cell doors in the political wing of the prison were open giving the impression that the guards’ control of the prisoners, many of whom had their own mobile phones, was limited.
The final phase of the escape involved many risks. Is there more diversity within or between races? So a decision was taken that if these spies were to cause trouble or attempt to tell the prison guards, we would kill them.” The prisoners were told they could bring no luggage with them. They spent a year held in the city of Kandahar. Well perhaps after class you can watch your fellow Commie "bitch outs" just like in 2016? There was a watch tower nearby so, to give cover for the activity in the house, workers were busy making concrete blocks in the yard during the day. Link Copied. Use of multiple, non-Anonymous handles for commenting on this webzine is strongly discouraged, and your secret (real or fictitious) email allows you to authenticate your commenter-identity, preventing others from assuming it, accidentally or otherwise. It seems influenza has now all but disappeared world wide, down 98%.
Filled with earth, these were dragged back with a rope to the mouth of the tunnel.
When exactly did the AngloZionist Empire collapse? They worried that the road under which they were tunneling only 7.5 feet below the surface might give way when heavy military trucks going to and from the prison passed overhead. Too bad they didn't give that dumb cunt a wood shampoo while they were dragging her ... "... has killed 225,000 americans." Behind them snaked a tunnel three foot high and almost 1,200 feet long that led under the prison walls to a house on the far side of a main road. Do you think any of those covid deaths might be misattributed? As they exited the tunnel they were searched by a group of Mojahideen who took away mobile phones and any money above 3,000 Afghani. The prison from which the mass escape took place is in the Sarposa district of Kandahar close to the road from Kandahar to the western city of Herat, and is the largest detention centre in southern Afghanistan. [1][3], On 3 August 1995 a Taliban Air Force MiG-21 aircraft forced the Russian aircraft to land at Kandahar. Enjoy, retard.
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One part of the cell floor was cleared of matting Muhammad says: “Moments later there was a knocking under the cleared area” and then the car jack was used to break through the concrete. [2] Seizing the opportunity, the Russians overpowered the remaining guards and the pilot was able to start one engine from the auxiliary power unit (itself started with a battery). The Taliban put the cost of the whole operation at $20,000 “for house rent, Mujahideen food, cost of the lorries and other equipment.”.
Initially skeptical, these men told the local Taliban high command in Kandahar which then sanctioned the scheme.
Yes, Trump will probably lose, but he's better off out of it.
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Cockburn is just practicing Goebells stategy of the big lie. by Graeme Wood In 1995, the Taliban used their MiG fighter jet to force a Russian IL-76 cargo plane to land at Kandahar Air Field. Well, I'm shocked at this moronic piece of scribble. [7], As of November 2019, the Ilyushin Il-76TD involved in the escape, RA-76842, is still in service, but is now operated by Aviacon Zitotrans. [1][4] Negotiations between the Russian government and the Taliban to free the men stalled for over a year and efforts by American senator Hank Brown to mediate between the two parties broke down over a prisoner exchange. We could walk crouched down or crawl easily. In August 1995 the Russian crew of the Ilyushin Il-76 was working for Tatarstan-based[1] Airstan, which was in turn leasing their plane to Rus Trans Avia Export, a Russian company that was based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. A Taliban spokesman later boasted that “from the beginning we had the support of skilled professionals, people who were trained engineers who advised us on the digging and we managed to hit the spot where the prisoners were kept.” But, by their own admissions, this was exactly what did not happen. A Media-Political Assassination in Denver, Serb Hillbillies, Sandra Afrika and Alexander the Great, American Pravda: the ADL in American Society.
Has Trump ever been diagnosed with any form of Asbergers Syndrome to your knowledge? He described the tunnel as so carefully planned and sophisticated that it appeared that engineers must have been involved, not merely men with shovels.
Furthermore the escape is also one of the few complex operations carried out by the Taliban about which a full account is available from their side that can be largely confirmed by US and Afghan government sources. The tunnel was dug from the outside. Hundreds of prisoners escape from Kandahar prison. The aircraft, with all seven of the crew aboard, quickly taxied down the runway. The Kandahar prison break illustrates an ability to foresee difficulties and find intelligent ways of overcoming them. Suicide bombers waited above ground to launch a diversionary attack if necessary.
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